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      <title>ACP and UCP: the buyer’s agent reads your data, not your page</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>ACP and UCP let AI agents check out on a buyer’s behalf, and agents compare products on structured data. What a buyer’s agent reads, and what your catalog has to hold.</description>
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      <title>Agentic AI in PIM isn’t a feature. It’s an architecture.</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A copilot inside a PIM is a feature. A PIM is agentic when outside AI systems can call it, work runs without a person at each step, and approvals and permissions come first.</description>
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      <category>Choosing a PIM</category>
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      <title>What a Digital Product Passport asks of your catalog</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A Digital Product Passport is a structured data record, not a label. It has to be machine-readable, kept current and readable by other systems. Many catalogs aren’t built that way.</description>
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      <title>How to evaluate a PIM in 2026: test it on your own catalog</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Feature checklists and demo screens don’t show how a PIM behaves on your catalog. Six areas to test, eight scenarios to run on your data, and the costs a quote leaves out.</description>
      <category>Choosing a PIM</category>
      <category>AI agents</category>
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      <title>What AI-ready product data is, and what the gap costs</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>AI systems compare typed attributes, not marketing copy. What AI-ready product data means, and what the gap costs in rejected listings, weak AI drafts and missed comparisons.</description>
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      <title>Your supplier sends you an Excel with 47 tabs</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Supplier data cleanup is real work that nobody prices. What the hours cost, why better templates don’t fix it, and what a pipeline can take over.</description>
      <category>Supplier data</category>
      <category>Catalog quality</category>
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      <title>Generating 10,000 AI product descriptions is the easy part</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Generating product copy with AI is easy. The work starts after: checking 10,000 descriptions for accuracy, holding one voice, and keeping every channel on the same version.</description>
      <category>AI agents</category>
      <category>Catalog quality</category>
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      <title>PIM vs. MDM vs. DAM: three systems, three different jobs</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>PIM, MDM, and DAM aren’t competing tools. Each solves a different problem at a different layer. How to tell which ones you need, and what AI agents need from the product record.</description>
      <category>Choosing a PIM</category>
      <category>Product data</category>
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      <title>Where the PIM sits in a composable commerce stack</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Composable commerce splits the stack. Product values still need one place that fills them in, checks them and hands each channel its own version. Where the PIM sits.</description>
      <category>Choosing a PIM</category>
      <category>Multichannel</category>
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      <title>Your pages still matter. Product data is now part of how you get found.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Organic search still matters. More discovery now runs through feeds, comparisons and AI answers, and those read the product record: typed, consistent and current.</description>
      <category>AI discovery</category>
      <category>Product data</category>
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      <title>The stock is in the warehouse. The listing still isn’t live.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Between “in the warehouse” and “on sale everywhere” sit missing attributes, hand-written copy, approval queues and channel rejections. Where each step stalls, and why.</description>
      <category>Multichannel</category>
      <category>Catalog quality</category>
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      <title>Running many brands on one platform without mixing their data</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Two setups are common: a PIM instance per brand, or every brand in one shared system. One multiplies infrastructure, the other mixes brand data. What a third option has to do.</description>
      <category>Choosing a PIM</category>
      <category>Product data</category>
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      <title>One record per product, and one place that can change it</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>One database doesn’t stop copies drifting. What stops it: one place that accepts writes, checks before a push, and a version of the record shaped for each channel.</description>
      <category>Multichannel</category>
      <category>Product data</category>
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      <title>Catalog completeness isn’t one score. It’s one answer per channel.</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A completeness percentage counts filled fields. It doesn’t say whether a marketplace will accept the listing, or whether AI and shopping agents have enough to work from.</description>
      <category>Catalog quality</category>
      <category>Multichannel</category>
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      <title>Product data is what your AI systems read</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>AI search, shopping agents and enrichment runs all read your product records. What an agent actually reads, and what the record needs: types, checks and a history.</description>
      <category>Product data</category>
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